4G (LTE) Roaming

Experience_
Mobile World Congress 2014

Telefonica offers to customers of

multiple partner operators in more
than 15 different countries and
during MWC in Barcelona in
anticipation of the commercial LTE
Roaming:

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The Mobile Broadband Reality

Everything connected
Internet on our daily life
Mobility

Broadband becoming a necessity

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LTE has reached the entire world

GSA forecasts 350+ commercial
LTE networks by end 2014
44% of commercial LTE networks
have deployed LTE1800
1.371 LTE user devices launched
(by 132 suppliers)

268 LTE networks commercially launched in 100 countries

WORLDWIDE
NUMBERS

!56% more countries with LTE service since 2012 - Ghana, Peru,
Zambia and Cambodia are the latest nations to launch LTE service
!157.7 million LTE subscriptions worldwide total: Q3 2013
Source: INTERIM GSA Evolution to LTE report - February 5, 2014

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Telefonicas vision: end-to-end virtualization

DEFINITION

Roaming is the ability for wireless customers to automatically

make and receive voice calls, send and receive data, or access
other services when travelling outside the geographical coverage
area of their own home network, by means of using a visited
network.
Both networks have a International Roaming agreement in place
to permit this, once all testing and technical implementation are
completed.

Roaming IN: Usage by foreign customers

of the Telefnica network

HOW IT WORKS?
Through the GSM Association standards have been set for seamless roaming
constantly updated by the introduction of new services or technologies.
Operators want to be able to offer the same services abroad as at home and
same quality E2E.
Roaming services have therefore evolved from basic GSM, to GPRS/EDGE, 3G/
HSDPA to now LTE.
The introduction of new services or technology requires new network (IREG)
and billing (TADIG) tests.
Operators apply wholesale charges to each other. Every operator sets its own
roaming tariff plans for its own customers.
Within Europe, roaming has always been an easy target for common policy.
Roaming regulation applies from 2003 and has become more restrictive over
the years.

Roaming OUT: Usage by Telefnica

customers of other operators
networks abroad

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Latest proposals head at the complete abolishment of roaming tariffs

Customer Benefits
If the customer has usually LTE service
does not want to fall back to 2G and
does not want to fall back to 3G when is
abroad

GOOD OPPORTUNITY TO TELEFNICA TO

PROVIDE BETTER SERVICE TO THEIR
CUSTOMERS

Telefonica is conducting several

roaming tests with international
operators currently and that it is looking
primarily to partner with tier one
operators. We are starting to sign
commercial agreements
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SAME SERVICES ABROAD AS AT HOME

AND SAME QUALITY End-To-End

Experience Scope
TIME PLAN

COVERAGE

CUSTOMERS

Barcelona downtown and

surroundings

Media & Analysts:

LTE Coverage
Feb 2014
(1800 GHz)
Additional
LTE coverage
in 2600 MHz
in hot spots

Special LTE Roaming

Service will be offered
during MWC

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Rest of Spain with own LTE

coverage of Movistar, mainly
Madrid as first door for entrance
to MWC.

Authorities and Regulators

Telefonica Executives & other
partners Executives and
Delegates

The first multioperator 4G Roaming IN Experience

Telefonica OBs
with LTE service

International
Partners

DRA

IPX Network

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Description & Type of Experiences

CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE
! Customers with LTE Data roaming
service open
! Need of LTE compatible phone
(check frequencies band)

QUALITY EXPERTICE
FIRA Sigos Booth (Hall 6 H38) we can
see indicators of customer
experience that everybody
understand:

! Voice using CS Fall back

!Speeds in UL and DL achieved by

the network in 4G compared to 3G

! Precommercial Service free of

charge generally in LTE, regular
prices in 3G.

!Access to websites: time in which

the client takes in downloaded a web
page, like google, the BBC, the
financial times...

! Scope of testing:

!Videos Youtube - streaming video

quality

Signaling diameter.
Roaming datos LTE.
Voice CSFB.
Services (SMS, Voice mail,
etc.).

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IPX PARTNER

All involved OBs has physical

connection with Telefnica Global
Services (TGS)
TGS has an agreement with a DRA
supplier (Aicent) that we use as a
technological partner for the
experience

QoE in Sigos Booth

INTERRUPTION VIDEOSTREAMING 4G/3G/2G:

Aggregated
Indicators of
customer
experience
that you can
see

HTTP WEB NAVIGATION: DOWNLOAD DURATION

THROUGHPUT DL 4G/3G/2G: MEAN_DOWNLOADD_RATE

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Architecture

TEspaa
TIWS/TG Solutions

SGW

Third Parties
MNOs

DEA
s8
S6d

s8

S6a

S6a

s8

TIWS
IPX Network

Gx/Rx

IPX Provider
(Aicent, TIS, BICS..)

SGSN
MME

HSS

S9/S6a/S6d

TEF OBs

S9/S6a/S6d
S9/S6a/S9

S9/S6a/S6d
s8

PGW

Aicent

PGW

s8
DRA/DEA

DEA
S6d

s8

S6a

DEA

S6a
Gx/Rx

SGSN
MME

HSS

DEA: Diameter Edge Agent

DRA: Diameter Routing Agent
S6: Signalling traffic
S8: Data Roaming traffic

HSS

PCRF

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MME
PCRF

We take advantage of
ongoing LTE Roaming
activities in Telefonica:
!Interworking, Roaming
Expert Group (IREG) of
GSMA: specifications and
tests of functional
capacity for LTE Roaming
services.
!LTE Alliance: LTE
Roaming working group
with other operators
!All testing specification
for the LTE Roaming
among OBs or between
any OB and other
partners (some of them
already commercial).

LTE Diameter Exchange - Service Capabilities

LTE Diameter Service helps MNOs rapidly launch LTE roaming globally without the worry of
interoperability issues and provides a very cost effective way of managing large number LTE
roaming partners worldwide.
Routing: centralized route resolution
to multiple roaming partners and
diameter interoperability between
different vendor and MNOs.

Reporting VAS to provide rich reporting

service for LTE roaming service
Coverage (on-net & off-net)
across our networks and our partners
to provide a truly global service
around the world

Operation Support: Provide

operation support, coordination and
project management between
roaming partners

Others: Scalability, Redundancy,

Wholesale billing, Alerting,
Monitoring, Troubleshooting, security,
business intelligence,.

SCTP Transportation: Diameter

Agents to implement transportation
link with each roaming partners

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